Kindergarten Land and Water worksheets

About this worksheet

A map shows the earth from above, with water drawn in blue and land in green and brown. A young child learns to read one by deciding, place by place, whether it is land or water. Each sheet has one picture map with six places marked by the letters A to F, and a key that shows the picture for each kind of place. The ocean, the lake and the river are water, and the mountain, the hill, the forest and the island are land.

For each letter the child circles land or water. Look at the color and the wavy lines together: water is blue and wavy, land is not. Ask your child to point to the key, find the same picture on the map, and say how they know. Later, children use the same idea to read the maps in their atlas and on the news, where blue is always water.

What your child will learn

• Tell land from water on a picture map
• Use the key to name each place on a map
• Know that the ocean, a lake and a river are water
• Know that mountains, hills, forests and islands are land

C3 Framework standard: D2.Geo.2.K-2